The biggest position battle taking place this Spring comes at the hot corner. Ian Stewart and Luis Valbuena, the two candidates for the job, are both short term options, with the Cubs looking at Junior Lake or Javier Baez as the long term third baseman. Stewart, who has long been the favorite for the job, resigned with the Cubs for $2 million in December, but the contract is not guaranteed unless he makes t ...

Entering the 2013 season, the face of the Cubs franchise is Starlin Castro. Castro just so happens to play short stop and anyone else in the organization who plays there is out of luck in terms of starting the year there as the every day starter. Castro will be entering his third full season with the Cubs and fourth all together. Last year he had a bit of a down year from 2010 and 2011, where he hit ...

Another infield position that will not have a position battle is at second base, where Darwin Barney is the clear cut favorite to land the job on the right side of the diamond. Darwin has been a mainstay at second for the Cubs since taking the position early in the 2011 season. He seems to figure into the lineup as either the two hitter or the eight hitter, depending on whether a righty or a lefty is starti ...

While batting during the 7th inning of Thursday’s game Brent Lillibridge’s season came to an abrupt end. "I got squared up pretty good”, said Lillibridge after he was struck by an errant 1-2 Josh Judy pitch. Although the utility player stayed on the base paths, eventually scoring a run on Konerko’s Grand Slam, later X-rays showed a fracture. After the game a clearly shaken up Lillibridge said, it’s just fru ...

The White Sox started out this 10 game 11 day road trip with a three game stint with their 2010 nemesis the Cleveland Indians. On Monday it was Brent Lillibridge, Tuesday, A.J. Pierzysnki, and Wednesday, Paul Konerko. Three critical home runs, all coming at the most important times in the particular games, and all leading the Sox on their way to three key victories to start this trip. The hoopla surroundin ...

Game 1, not so good for the White Sox. But games 2 and 3 can go a long way to erase the debacle of tonight. But in order for the Sox to turn this series around, someone is going to have to step up. Coming off the atrocious showing in Baltimore in which the South Siders dropped 3 games out of 4 to the worst team in baseball, game 1 of 3 in Minnesota is not what the Sox were hoping for. However, the pitchi ...